Automation In Agriculture using Robots
k s rangasamy col lege of
technology
tiruchengode.
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Automation In Agriculture using Robots
submitted by
s.keerthana
g.indhuja
ece-iii year
email.id
keerthi12slm@gmail.com
Abstract— This paper contains a description of the mechanical design route that was adopted in building a small Agriculture Robot. At the outset, we decided to follow a set of guidelines that defined a broad set of specifications that featured safety, low weight, small length, large mission time, easy-to-use, application specific, and most importantly low cost. The paper will address the most important design issues, lessons learned, and problems that remain for further development. Index Terms: Robot, agriculture, automation etc....
INTRODUCTION
At present technology there are many machines for agriculture. There are separate machines for seed sowing, fertilizer spraying, plough, harvesting which can be driven by a tractor. But the cost of these machines is very high which cannot be afforded by a normal farmer. Now farmers are using only tractors with rotawators etc for ploughing. Seed sowing, fertilizer spraying, weed removing are done manually. Also skilled manpower is required to operate those machines. In many places there is a severe manpower shortage also. Our prototype is designed for performing most of the agricultural tasks. AGROBOT can perform tasks like seed sowing, fertilizer spraying (liquid & solid) and weed removing. The main advantage of AGROBOT is, it is operated in two modes (i.e. automatic mode and manual mode). Manpower can be reduced. When commercially manufactured the cost will be very low and can be afforded by all farmers.
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The AGROBOT system is split into two
technology
tiruchengode.
[pic]
Automation In Agriculture using Robots
submitted by
s.keerthana
g.indhuja
ece-iii year
email.id
keerthi12slm@gmail.com
Abstract— This paper contains a description of the mechanical design route that was adopted in building a small Agriculture Robot. At the outset, we decided to follow a set of guidelines that defined a broad set of specifications that featured safety, low weight, small length, large mission time, easy-to-use, application specific, and most importantly low cost. The paper will address the most important design issues, lessons learned, and problems that remain for further development. Index Terms: Robot, agriculture, automation etc....
INTRODUCTION
At present technology there are many machines for agriculture. There are separate machines for seed sowing, fertilizer spraying, plough, harvesting which can be driven by a tractor. But the cost of these machines is very high which cannot be afforded by a normal farmer. Now farmers are using only tractors with rotawators etc for ploughing. Seed sowing, fertilizer spraying, weed removing are done manually. Also skilled manpower is required to operate those machines. In many places there is a severe manpower shortage also. Our prototype is designed for performing most of the agricultural tasks. AGROBOT can perform tasks like seed sowing, fertilizer spraying (liquid & solid) and weed removing. The main advantage of AGROBOT is, it is operated in two modes (i.e. automatic mode and manual mode). Manpower can be reduced. When commercially manufactured the cost will be very low and can be afforded by all farmers.
:
The AGROBOT system is split into two
References: 1] ‘Automotive Mechanics’ by William H. Crouse & Donald L. Anglin, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. 2] ‘Fundamentals of Electronics: DC/AC Circuits’ by David L.Terrell, Delmar Publishers. Pictures of AGROBOT taken while testing, control kit (right) [pic] [pic]